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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Coffee + Friends~perfect!

Here we go for the Verve VLVSEP03 sketch challenge. I am running quite behind on these challenges, but will hopefully catch up before Friday! As you can see, Amber provided a great sketch and the twist was to make for a girlfriend. I thought about this for a while and then the light grew from dim to bright...Julee had provided us with the perfect image/sentiment from the Delightful and Delicious set. I have not clicked on to see other participant's cards, but I will as soon as I am finished with this post. I am quite curious to see everyone's creation and to see what percentage of us peeps thought this to be the perfect stamp choice! To make the card, I wanted to use these two colours, aqua and brown. I love the warmth and found the two different dps from the K and Co. Wild Raspberry 8 X 8 pack. The brown cs I used is from a textured Bazzill 12 X 12 that I had in my stash. I first stamped the tropical flowers (small size and large) onto the dp with close to cocoa craft ink and cut out when they were dry.

I then cut and layered and sponged the edges of the

rectangular panels and placed them onto the card base. I made the horizontal panel and used an EK Success wavy punch on the bottom part and layered these. I then used my Blossom Spellbinder die to cut out and emboss the shape that I wanted to mount the flowers onto. I arranged these and used a dimensional on the bottom flower and placed half pearl centers on the flowers. I also coloured the pearls with a very pale yellow Copic marker to soften and match the yellow patterned paper. The coffee image and sentiment were also stamped with the close to cocoa craft ink and I cut that out and adhered directly to the brown vertical panel. That's it! Really simple card and I love how it turned out. Thanks for visiting and taking a peek!

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I am a Canadian gal transplanted from Montreal to Austin, Texas, my home since June 1998. I have a wonderful loving husband who puts up with my passions. I have been gardening almost all of my life and stamping for 10+ years. At night, you can find me knitting almost every night of the year in front of a tv show. We have 2 older children, a daughter 28 yrs. old and a son 23 yrs. old. Our pets are an Australian shepherd mini (Rileigh), a conure (Cappy) and we are taking care of DD's cat, Pearl, as her apartment allows only one pet and she has the Boston Terrier, Elmo .